According to Slashdot.org

“Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections. The outage, which is being blamed on a fault in a single undersea cable, has severely restricted internet access in countries including India, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and left huge numbers of people struggling to get online. Observers say that the digital blackout first struck yesterday morning, with the Egypt’s communications ministry suggesting it was caused by a cut in a major internet pipeline linking it to Europe.”

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The parent company of Wordpress, Automattic announced this week that it received $29 million in funding from 4 investors, who will take a minority stake in the company.

This is great news for bloggers, and if you are wondering, Wordpress’s GPL license will not change.

According to Automattic’s founder, Matthew Mullenweg, “Automattic and myself personally will continue to contribute to open source in every way possible. It’s something I feel very strongly about and it’s core to the DNA of our company.”

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“Untraceable” tells the story of a technology-savvy serial killer who displays his graphic murders on his own website. The FBI Internet Crimes division must work quickly to track him down. The movie “Untraceable” stars Oscar nominated actress (”Under The Tuscan Sun”) Diane Lane.

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Are you looking for business class chat software, then look no further, Openfire is an open source instant message server with an enterprise edition upgrade path.

Openfire is a solution that is easily setup, with a web console for configuration that is perfect for the SME Environment.

More information at http://jivesoftware.com

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What is Songbird?

A Desktop Media Player and it’s Free as in Open Source!

Another development by Mozilla!

Go take a look at http://songbirdnest.com

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